Leslie Rands News
British opera singer and actor
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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2022-06-30 16:15:09
With so many world events defying logic right now, I thought we might escape briefly into a space where words make no attempt to stack up, but merely divert for a while and lighten the spirit. Welcome to the literary worlds of Lewis Carroll, William Brighty Rands, Hilaire Belloc and someone called Mr Traditional. We
2020-10-24 09:16:19
[…] with the funding. Because of Wilfrid Mellers, contemporary European and American composers such as John Cage (1912-1992), Steve Reich, Bruno Maderna (1920-1973) and Luciano Berio (1925-2003) came to visit the York music department. Vic's first teacher at York was Robert Sherlaw Johnson (1932-2000), as a tutor Sherlaw Johnson was not entirely successful for Vic except that Vic learned about the music of Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992). His second teacher was Bernard Rands, and this relationship was far more successful and Rands became a friend for life. Also thanks to Mellers' influence, the director of Universal Edition in Vienna became a regular visitor to York, and the company took Vic on at the age of 26, the youngest composer on Universal Edition's books. A BBC Proms commission followed, In Transit; this had been intended for Pierre Boulez (1925-2016), but he was unable to conduct it […]
2019-02-21 15:00:14
Bernard Rands: Chains Like the Sea; Danza Petrificada review | Andrew Clements' classical CD of the week
Moser/BBC Philharmonic/Rundell (NMC) NMC’s new releases include striking works by Rands, in celebration of the label’s three decades of championing contemporary music NMC is celebrating its 30th birthday next month. What launched as a modest cassette-based operation (the name came from New Music Cassettes) has gone on to become Britain’s leading contemporary music label, with a catalogue that includes recordings of many of the most significant British works of our time, from Harrison Birtwistle’s The Mask of Orpheus to Judith Weir’s A Night at the Chinese Opera, Benedict Mason’s Lighthouses of England and Wales to Tansy Davies’s Spine. NMC has assiduously promoted up-and-coming composers too, and typically the bundle of spring releases marking its anniversary ranges right across the age spectrum, from one of British music’s senior figures to one of its brightest new talents. Not that
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-05-18 15:39:03
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[…] the ear, and their transformations are easy to follow while still capable of surprise. The work is spectacular but a bit slight; it encourages one to seek out Needham’s larger work (he has been a composer-in-residence with the Albany Symphony twice) to see how his vivid sense of color sustains itself over time. My first attempt to pay close attention to the music of my own time was to seek out the recording of Bernard Rands’ 1984 Pulitzer-winning work Canti del Sole when it first came out. I found it admirable but unmoving, and subsequent encounters with his music have struck me the same way. So it was with the other new work this evening, Rands’ Prelude …sans voix parmi les voix…, two movements from a projected four-movement work for flute, viola and harp. Rands turned 80 in 2014 amid much celebration, and he continues to compose apace. Flutist Deborah […]
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